ABC news!

We’ve been interviewed by ABC news - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-11/search-for-prehistoric-mammal-flat-rocks-inverloch/10798700?WT.ac=localnews_gippsland

First day at site

The crew and the site

Nick explains where we are digging

Kool One and Kool Two

Lesley and Gerry

Marion's caudal vertebra

George celebrates his first fossil find

Marion shows off her caudal vert

Fotini shows off her fossil

Fotini's fossil

George finds an ornithpod tooth in the back yard

George's ornithopod tooth

Dig in!

Dream no longer dear Dinosaurs
Diggers have returned to your shores
Excitement is high as we dig
We know we will find something big
But whether finds be big or small
We’ve all responded to your call
We are here and may the fun begin
We know for sure that we will win.
Digging from dawn to afternoon
Hoping the tide won’t come too soon
Weary, we take back rocks to break
At home - if we can stay awake!

… by Nicole Evered

I have boxes of Field Reports in my car

... and I think they are looking awesome!
Huge thanks to all our contributors and my superhumanly patient proof-readers.

Three days to go!

Three days until the Week 1 dino diggers descend on the dig house in Cape Paterson. We will be working the Flat Rocks site near Inverloch once again - initially targeting the layer near the rock we extracted in October 2017 and which yielded a rather interesting mammal jaw.
Field Report Day is on the 23rd February at the Bunurong Environment Centre in Inverloch, where we hope to be able to show off anything cool we find in the first two weeks of digging.

2018 Field Report

I will be sending the 2018 Field Report to the printers tomorrow.  Here is a sneak peek at the front cover. It features the Peter Trusler reconstruction of Victoria's newest named dinosaur Diluvicursor pickeringi (see Herne et al, 2018) wandering along an early Cretaceous riverbank.

Diluvicursor getting views

The annoucement Diluvicursor pickeringi, our first Eric the Red West dinosaur to be named, was the top-most viewed Zoological Science article in PeerJ in 2018, with more than 11,000 views.


Congratulations to Matt Herne and the team (including regular Dino Dreamers Alan Tait and Mike Cleeland)!
https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284881116/celebrating-community-growth-and-open-science-peerjs-2018-in-review/?utm_source=soye2018&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text_link